Firewall between logistics and IT

It’s hard to go much more than a week in the supply chain business without hearing about the silos that separate everyone. Carriers don’t talk to shippers. Inbound doesn’t talk to outbound. International doesn’t talk to domestic. Procurement doesn’t talk to finance. Sourcing doesn’t talk to transportation. Merchandising doesn’t talk to anyone. But all this hand-wringing ignores one more crucial divide – the firewall between logistics and IT. For the purposes of this discussion, let’s quickly define what we mean by IT: that is, the department responsible on an enterprise level for the systems and technology that underpin every facet of the business. That means human resources, office equipment p...